Mailing-envelop.



PATENTED MAY 29 J. NEIHY$EL MAILING ENVELOP.

APBLIOA'IION FILED JULY 10, 1905.

3 a O o a n t r W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB NEIHYSEL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- HALF TO MORRIS LEVY, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

MAILING- Specification of Letters Patent.

ENVELQP.

Patented May 29, 1906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JAooB NEIHYSEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Mailing-Envelops, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to means secured at the open end of an envelop whereby said open end may be securely closed to prevent the discharge of seed, &c., within the envelop, thus providing an envelop adapted for transmitting through the mails not only seed,

but printed matter, circulars, &c., which by their nature require that one end of the envelop shall be so arranged as to be readily opened for the-purpose of examining the contents by the postal examiners.

My invention consists of a metallic fastener adapted to be secured to the paper of the envelop and having suflicient flexibility to permit one to readily fold it, and thus lock the end of the envelop securely.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of an envelop embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same, parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the envelop-blank unfolded with my improved fastener shown in position. Fig. 4 is a central longitudinal section through the upper part of the envelop.

1 represents an envelop-blank having the side flaps 2, a bottom flap 3, and a top flap 4. The particular shape of the envelop-blank is immaterial as far as my invention is concerned, inasmuch as the fastening means may be readily used with any desired form or type of blank.

My im roved fastener consists of a piece of flexible slieet, metal of any desired length and Width, according to the envelo with which it is intended to be used, said astener comprising a central body 5, provided with parallel lateral extensions 6 from each end thereof, said extensions being spaced apart to divide an intervening space 7. From this it will be seen that the resultant fastener is substantially of a flattened I shape, the body or upright portion of the I being reduced to a short connection between the flanges of the I. This fastener is secured to the main portion of the envelop-blank at one end thereof by means of a strip of paper 8, which is pasted to the main body of the envelop and to the fastener, thus ermanently securing said fastener in posi- 1011.

As will be seen from the drawings, my improved fastener is entirely within the body of the envelop, the object of which is to leave the flap of the envelop free to be moved independent of the fastener after the envelop is once opened, and thus preventing a fracture of the metal of which the fastener is composed by unnecessary and repeated folding.

After the envelop has been filled the top flap 4 is folded down on the back of the envelop, and the metallic fastener is folded on the line 10, thereby securely fastening the opened end of the envelop and effectually preventing the escape of any article that may the lateral projections provides a stiffening for the envelop throughout its length.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- I The combination with an envelop, of a metallic fastener of substantially. flattened I JACOB NEIHYSEL.

In presence of MORRIS LEVY, THEODORE A. BECK.

e in the envelop. The fastener by means of shape secured within the main body of the 1 

